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To: Kickass Conservative
As dumb as this sounds, I could never live where they drive on the Left side of the road.

I get ya, but you get used to it if you live in such a place long enough. Just conditioning, I guess.

A word of advice... If you're ever visiting a country where they drive on the left, look BOTH ways before stepping off the curb. I once got hit by a passing car in London because I instinctively looked to the left as I was stepping into an intersection. I never saw the car coming from the right.

27 posted on 06/06/2013 10:04:24 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

I was in London exactly eight hours on a layover back in 1990.

Went to Piccadilly, took a Bus Tour, hit a Pub and then back to the Airport. Come to think of it, I had a bite at a Taco Bell, couldn’t stomach the English Food they served at the Pub. I’m a real Anthony Bourdain, NOT.

I will heed your advice should I ever return there, which isn’t likely with the Muzzie takeover of the Once Great Britian.

Vacation destination choices are getting very slim nowadays.


30 posted on 06/06/2013 10:43:41 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The Democrat Party, making Treason mainstream for over fifty years...)
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To: Windflier

Good point. I was nearly hit by a delivery van in London for the same reason. Glad I couldn’t understand what the driver shouted.

It works the other way, too. I remember reading somewhere that Winston Churchill was hit by a car because he looked the wrong way as he started to cross a street. I think it happened in New York shortly after WWII, but I’m not certain, and I don’t have the book around.


44 posted on 06/07/2013 4:49:32 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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